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CURTAIN POLE BRACKET Patented Dec. 6; 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT BRASS, OF BROOKLYN, NEYV YORK.

CURTAIN-POLE BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,340, dated December 6, 1887.

Application filed May 4, 1887. Serial No. 237,028.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT RRAss, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Pole Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an extensible bracket for curtain-poles; and it consists of a supporting-bracket the horizontal piece of which is made of U-shaped cross'section and provided with downwardly-extending cars at the front part, to which the inclined brace-rod is riveted, the front end of thehorizontal piece being doubled up at the top and provided with a tap-hole and clamp-screw for the extensible polesupporting rod, as will appear more fully hereinafter, and finally be pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation, partly in section, of my improved curtain-pole bracket. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same on line a: a", Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a plan of the blank from which the horizontal part of the bracket is bent up.

Similar letters of reference indicate sponding parts.

A in the drawings represents the fixed portion or bracket for curtain-poles, which is formed of a horizontal piece, a, and an inclined bracerod, I). The horizontal piece a is made of sheet metal and bent up into U- shaped cross-section, so as to guide the extension-rod B of the bracket, the semicircular bowl of which supports the curtain-pole and is provided with a set-screw for the same at COITG- the outer end, as customary in curtain-pole brackets of this class. The horizontal piece a is bent up from the blank shown in Fig. 3,

said blank being provided at both sides of the front end with downwardly-bent portions a, which are lapped over the end of the inclined (No model.)

brace b and riveted to the same, as shown in Fig. 1. The horizontal piece a is also provided at its outer front end with a tongue, a which is equal in width with the top part of the piece a, and bent back over the top so as to overlap the same, it being provided with a tap-hole for the set-screw d, by which the extension-rod B is clamped in position. The extensionrod is inclosed and steadily-guided by the U-shaped horizontal piece a, and is firmly held in position and clamped by the set-screw d to the end of the inclined brace b, the U-shaped guide-piece to preventing the wabbling of the extension-rod, so that it supports the curtain-pole rigidly at any desired distance from the wall.

Having thus described my invention, Iclai m as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of a horizontal piece of U-shaped cross-section, an inclined brace riveted to downwardly-extending front ears of said horizontal piece, a re-enforcing tongue bent back over the middle top part of the horizontal piece, said tongue and horizontal piece being provided with a tap-hole, a set-screw screwing into the same, and an extension-rod guided in the horizontal piece, substantially as set forth.

2. In a curtain-pole bracket, the horizontal piece a, made of a blank bent into U shape and provided with downwardly extending ears a, and a tongue, a at the front end that is bent back over the middle part of the front end of the piece a, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT BRASS.

. WVitnesses:

MARTIN PETRY, CHARLES FLEISOHACKER. 

